Windows 10: It seems like the pinyin keyboard for traditional characters disappeared. Is there no way...

Before the latest windows update I could use pinyin to type traditional Chinese characters, but I got a new laptop and updated to windows 11, and I can't find the option under "add a keyboard" in the language options. I don't have the bopomofo keyboard memorized, so I can't just use that my keyboard only has the English alphabet.

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Traditional Chinese pinyin keyboard in window 10

How to HanYuPinYin to input Traditional Chinese in Windows 10?

step 1: In Windows 10 , go to "settings"; "Time &" Language"; "Region & Language"; "Add a language"; "Chinese (Simplied)".

please note: the (Simplified) includes the Traditional words.

Step 2: under the "Language", select "中文（中华人民共和国）“；”Options“； ”Keyboards“；select ”Microsoft Pinyin“；”options“。

Step 3：under ”Microsoft PinYin“， select”Character sets”， choose A character sets from (simplified Chinese) to (Traditional Chinese). The job is done!

Please note: Although you can use this method to input hanyupinyin and get the traditional Chinese characters, but if you need to switch to Simplified Chinese, you have to go to the step 3 again and change the Character Set from Traditional Chinese to the
Simplified Chinese. I hope Microsoft or its developers can add some patch to fix it so that in the future, users can easily switch language from English or Chinese Traditional or Chinese Simplified modes.

Some other people suggested to use HongKong Traditional Chinese and bopomofo keyboard, but you can not select the candidite font （同音字）。I think Microsoft engineer may fix this bug in the future.

 

Keyboard input for pinyin Traditional Chinese

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Keyboard input for pinyin Traditional Chinese

Traditional pinyin input is now available on Windows Phone 10.

I tested this on the Lumia 950 running Windows Phone 10, and the Simplified Chinese QWERTY keyboard now has options for Simplified or Traditional character sets. Choosing the latter will let you use pinyin with Traditional Chinese characters.

Hope this helps.